Setting the week of August 22 (or so... ) Everyone join!! You know you want to!

[JodiLynn]

Just removed the egg turner and filled up both water trays. I removed all eggs that did not have anything in them and put my 12 viable ones in cut down egg cartons to keep any early hatchers from playing soccer with their brothers and sisters. I hope all is well and that most of the 12 hatch! This is my first incubation and I am worried about them drowing, but they all have air sacs in the proper position and seem to b growing so *fingers crossed*....oh my however am I going to get through classes for the next 3 days!

 

[Texasmja]

I had 100% hatch rate (6/6) with my Brinsea Eco 20. This was my first hatch, I used 4 eggs stored at room temp and 2 from the refrigerator. All have hatched and are doing great. The refrigerated eggs were at least a week old and never turned once they were refrigerated. Overall a very good learning experience. We had two power outages on day 15 (I wrapped the incubator in a towel), I also hatched two duck eggs during incubation.

 

[sandmbaker]

ok lockdown is officially on!

 

[Sahwithchicks]

Allllllriiighht. I'm officially on lockdown. I have to admit... I am a candle junkie. I candled a lot. So now it is really hard not to check on the embryo movement.


I have one Cochin egg and three quail.


These are going to be the longest three days EVER... Maybe not as long as the last days of pregnancies, but really long never the less.


I also am trying to decide what to put in the bator next. A neighbor is selling fertile silkie eggs for $5 a dozen, but I also might buy some Welsummer eggs. AND I wanted to put more of my quail eggs in, which I can to both if I time it just right. Ahhhh, decisions decisions.

 

[wahmommy]

Day 18: So tomorrow in the morning is lockdown for me, but I candled because technically it is day 18. And, three more quit since last candle at day 14.

Ameraucana egg #1 with Detached Air Cell was an early quitter- not sure if I killed it when I candled at 7 days as I turned the egg sideways when I candled it. After I knew it was DAC I made sure to always keep it upright but not meant to be I guess. Another Ameraucana egg that I hadn't been including in the count anyway as I was pretty sure it was an early quitter turned out to be a definite quitter. And one of the marans eggs that had a moving chick in it at 14 days is not viable anymore. I have one more Ameraucana egg that probably won't make it as the air cell is about half the egg - no movement in there when I candled although I saw movement at day 14. I'm just going to put that one in lockdown and see what happens.

So we are down to:

five Ameraucana eggs (one of which I don't think is going to make it)- these were shipped eggs, originally set 13.
eight Black Copper Marans eggs - local eggs, originally set 12.

 

[chicksooner]

Day 19 and still nothing really exciting happening...

Hoping tomorrow brings some excitement.

Love the chick pics.

 

[sandmbaker]

so I candled today before I went into lockdown and one of the eggs has the big funky aircell the others are fine. is this a sign of shrink wrapped?

 

[wahmommy]

so I candled today before I went into lockdown and one of the eggs has the big funky aircell the others are fine. is this a sign of shrink wrapped?

I don't know, did you see any movement? I have one that looks like that but worse- I was going to post it in a bit - I didn't see any movement so I'm putting it in lockdown but I don't have a lot of hope - it had lost 20% of its original weight too.

 

[wahmommy]

Here's my huge air cell - I can see veins but if the chick is still alive in there its pretty small...

 

[Wrightsx4]

so I candled today before I went into lockdown and one of the eggs has the big funky aircell the others are fine. is this a sign of shrink wrapped?

I hope not but I don't know. One of my two looked a lot like that before lockdown. Hopefully one of the experienced ones can help us. Did you dry incubate? I don't know what normal looks like at day 17/18 after dry incubation so I thought it was due to that...? Online I found lots of day 7,14,18 diagrams but they were for 50% humidity. My air sacs were big & weird shaped but they were shipped eggs too & most were detached and floating around.